Really??! I don't give a rat's behind!!!
Sometimes I have issues with patience, but when it comes to the hospital and being on the patient side of things, I could probably have all the patience in the world.
If you come into the ER, wether it be on your on accord (through the front door walking in) or via ambulance, being a patient does NOT give you the right to be a complete and total asshole!!! I don't really care if you have psych issues, have an appendage hanging off, have something that's broken but not hanging off, are here for a stubbed toe or chest pain, or have a family member that is sick. I don't care. IF you are rude, then the staff has every right to be rude back to you.
Go ahead and say that I'm a mean bitch or an asshole. I don't care at all.
I believe that if you come to the ER, wether it be by you walking in yourself or via ambulance, that you truly want help. I know that a TON of people use the ER as their regular doctor's and other's are drug seekers. I know that. But you come to the ER for help. If you don't want the help, then don't come and waste our resorces...resourses that could be used to help someone else out. Resources that could save one of your family members' lives.
I have seen patients come in and expect to be treated with respect when all they do is cuss at the staff and refuse to let us get your basic vital signs (blood pressure, heart rate, resperations--how many times you breath, what your oxygen level's are, etc). Sometimes, your symptoms warrant blood to be drawn. You know, the more you cooperate with your care the faster you will get out...the faster we know what's ailing you...the faster we can get the proper medicine's in you. If you can't cooperate with that, then there is NO need for you to be here.
I understand being irate if you don't know anything after a cerain length of time (like after 90 min or so). But really??! Getting up into someone's face or attempting to hit or actually hitting someone and threatening them won't get you anywhere. It'll win you, if you are a patient, restraints...you will be restrained to the bed. If you are a visitor, then it will cost you being escorted off of the premicis and not allowed back into the building(s) or an arrest. Did you know that you can't hit a health care worker??!
Did you know that???!! If you didn't, then I bet it's a surprise to you. We are here to HELP people...not take shit from people. You don't realize what you do to OUR mental states when you cuss at us, try to hurt us, belittle us, etc. Yet you wonder why some of the older health care workers are tough cookie's...assholes...can give it better than you have EVER seen. Not everyone is mean....but it's assholes that are out there that make us have a hardened shell around us...a hard heart...become assholes ourselves.
There are nights that I just want to go home and cry myself to sleep...all because of assholes. I want to feel sorry for people, but it's hard to feel sorry for people who abuse the system and abuse their nurse(s). Some of the nurses that I work with actually will refuse patients because of the way the patient(s) have treated them. I don't blame them. Never will, either. Don't expect us to WANT to help you if you don't want to help yourself...if you want to be mean and belittle us...if you want to be a perv and hit on the female's and try to grope us and what not.
I need my job, so I'll be the Christian person that I am and walk the f**k away. I have every right to walk away from you while you are in the middle of your tirade because I no longer want to hear it. I have every right to be mean to you and to be rude to you. I have every right to ignore the hell out of you. Don't be a punk if you want to be helped.
(Sorry Blogger for the cussing...it felt right at this moment in time.)
Thank you for allowing me to vent. I know I have a TON of people who are disapproving of this as they read it...others are agreeing with me. Who ever you are, you are welcome to write your comments below. I will not answer them or anything like that, but I will read them.
Sometimes the best medicine is to take deep breathes...and lots of them!!!!!
If you come into the ER, wether it be on your on accord (through the front door walking in) or via ambulance, being a patient does NOT give you the right to be a complete and total asshole!!! I don't really care if you have psych issues, have an appendage hanging off, have something that's broken but not hanging off, are here for a stubbed toe or chest pain, or have a family member that is sick. I don't care. IF you are rude, then the staff has every right to be rude back to you.
Go ahead and say that I'm a mean bitch or an asshole. I don't care at all.
I believe that if you come to the ER, wether it be by you walking in yourself or via ambulance, that you truly want help. I know that a TON of people use the ER as their regular doctor's and other's are drug seekers. I know that. But you come to the ER for help. If you don't want the help, then don't come and waste our resorces...resourses that could be used to help someone else out. Resources that could save one of your family members' lives.
I have seen patients come in and expect to be treated with respect when all they do is cuss at the staff and refuse to let us get your basic vital signs (blood pressure, heart rate, resperations--how many times you breath, what your oxygen level's are, etc). Sometimes, your symptoms warrant blood to be drawn. You know, the more you cooperate with your care the faster you will get out...the faster we know what's ailing you...the faster we can get the proper medicine's in you. If you can't cooperate with that, then there is NO need for you to be here.
I understand being irate if you don't know anything after a cerain length of time (like after 90 min or so). But really??! Getting up into someone's face or attempting to hit or actually hitting someone and threatening them won't get you anywhere. It'll win you, if you are a patient, restraints...you will be restrained to the bed. If you are a visitor, then it will cost you being escorted off of the premicis and not allowed back into the building(s) or an arrest. Did you know that you can't hit a health care worker??!
Did you know that???!! If you didn't, then I bet it's a surprise to you. We are here to HELP people...not take shit from people. You don't realize what you do to OUR mental states when you cuss at us, try to hurt us, belittle us, etc. Yet you wonder why some of the older health care workers are tough cookie's...assholes...can give it better than you have EVER seen. Not everyone is mean....but it's assholes that are out there that make us have a hardened shell around us...a hard heart...become assholes ourselves.
There are nights that I just want to go home and cry myself to sleep...all because of assholes. I want to feel sorry for people, but it's hard to feel sorry for people who abuse the system and abuse their nurse(s). Some of the nurses that I work with actually will refuse patients because of the way the patient(s) have treated them. I don't blame them. Never will, either. Don't expect us to WANT to help you if you don't want to help yourself...if you want to be mean and belittle us...if you want to be a perv and hit on the female's and try to grope us and what not.
I need my job, so I'll be the Christian person that I am and walk the f**k away. I have every right to walk away from you while you are in the middle of your tirade because I no longer want to hear it. I have every right to be mean to you and to be rude to you. I have every right to ignore the hell out of you. Don't be a punk if you want to be helped.
(Sorry Blogger for the cussing...it felt right at this moment in time.)
Thank you for allowing me to vent. I know I have a TON of people who are disapproving of this as they read it...others are agreeing with me. Who ever you are, you are welcome to write your comments below. I will not answer them or anything like that, but I will read them.
Sometimes the best medicine is to take deep breathes...and lots of them!!!!!
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